Lo' there brewers! I am crafting my next world after years of playing in the last. What I beg of you, those willing to share, is your names and ideas. Be they gods, countries, cities, mountain ranges, rivers, armies, or villains let's share what we have and build better worlds!
(( I'm at work till late but will post my own when I'm home))
How about the kingdom or city of Skrymir, on the Cormorand Coast? I just made that up.
Could be something like GRR Martin's Aerie (sp?), only a city, rather than a keep. Maybe a city in a hollowed out mountain like The Devil's Tower...
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Here's an alphabetical list of all the names (given names, surnames, and place names) that I've used so far in my homebrew world, Malendev. Whenever I name something or somewhere new, I check this list to make sure I haven't already given that name to some other god, person, country, province, or city already:
A
Aegaeon
Aftenkenolf
Aka-Bavinos
Alamas
Aldiron
Aldrest
Alz
Ambel
Amotos
Anikahut
Anku
Antien
Anseim
Apex
Araggghol
Arcane Divinity
Ardent’s Hall
Arikos
Arki
Artifex
Arwynia
Aurrior
Avadel
Avis
B
Bayorenkok
Beeks
Belwess
Beq
Bilsi
Biraxus
Bleakwatch
Brah-Keltou
Brasscliff
Brenman
Briareus
Brix
Brushwood
Bylea
C
Caelasis
Cair-Feoltour
Cairnhold
Canamieh
Canthis
Cassandra
Cenbar
Centerhold
Charo
Cheimark
Cheim’n
Chervyll
Chokepoint Pass
Chyla
Clarity
Coldmont
Colourborn – The Lost
Corpse Flower’s Body, The
Crueshem
Cu-Deng
D
Delashex
Delshaf
Dentus
Denza
Dins
Discord
Dissonant’s Star
Dominat
Dominatus
Donomo
Drakken
Dreamweaver, The
E
Edean
Efku
Ekan
Eladrifen
Elanet
Elestaph
Elkit
Elsban
El’vath
Emline
Endless Tower
Enneladder
Erem
Eroll
Ershen
Ert
Escarde
Esterbarrow
Everwake
Eweth
F
Farpoint
Fayder
Fedamore
Feeri
Feror
First Equation, The
Florian
Fortune’s Fall
Free Captain
Fuokauton
G
Garthalanox
Gefalehltul
Gelin
Gelvas
Gen
Grand Hall
Grandstep
Great and Small
Guiding Light
H
Harlequin
Harphus
Hearthfire
Highbright
Highover
I
Icerock
Illgate
Implacable, The
Inferrus
Inheritor, The
Inkpetal Hills
Innia
Ironwar
Ivlithkould
J
Jantis
Ji-Alfon
Jiira
Jorun
K
Kanitesh
Kanric
Karatoun
Karikul
Karrakul
Keilo-Magas
Kel’Bath
Kelitiya
Kelmish
Kelon
Kelvis
Kereg
Khamlanghanen
King’s Rock
Koli
Korrud
Kota
Kovorryik
Krenz
Krune
Kytusandreph
L
Ladyluck
Laeviti
Lantimar
Laria
Larose
Leiyne
Leiyne’s Faithful
Lenra
Letchie
Levisca
Lhaka
Lilliya
Little Omu
Living Lightning
M
Malendev
Marrowmound
Marshmoor
Melandine
Memmest
Mina
Mirmu
Mod
Morgate
Morodu Oasis
Morril
Motoku’s End
Mt. Minthos
Murr
Myrdue
Myvalios
N
Nalerrys
Nambetz
Nara
Naya
Neese
Nent
Neshtyk
Niladeyne
Nimerid
Nimlenz
Nim-Selbaba
Niriri
Nismel
Nivedita
Nocturnus
Northhaven
Northreach
O
Olsagg
Omu
Oshos
Osseous Mark
Ouarnnnksjl
Our Lady of Temperance
Ovinscar
P
Pegan
Pelmaat
Pimanvanos
Piret
Port Stormy
Q
Qistef
Quill
Q’ur
Qwess
R
Raolwaff
Redemption Heart
Reikensz
Renji
Renpar
Respite
Revvydis
Ril’Bath
Ripanshu
Roog
S
Sakuya
Salus
Sariden
Satasan
Scourgehaven
Searinglight
Seera
Seivos
Selesta
Selzadori
Serrana
Shakapon
Shaper, The
Shevek
Shevex
Shipside
Shyanshou
Silent, The
Skyside
Skystate
Sogrend
Solace
Soul-Eater, The
Southhaven
Spirit of Creation
Spiriz
Standwell
Starryspell
Stoat-Rider, The
Sudal
Suvanex
Syndren
T
Talek
Talus
Telfas (Old Telfas/New Telfas)
Telsith
Tenks
Tesh
Teshaad
Thriceborn
Thunderhawk
Tika
Til-Muth
Tivana
Tora
Trebor
Trelbek
Trus
Tula
Tylvood
U
Ulash
Urnhurst
V
Valcastle
Valleyhorn
Vashel
Vector
Velsi
Velus
Vertvale
Via
Viparendet
Visybit
Vitryvech
Vo-Abatu
Vu’un
W
Warpath
Weltrym
West-Cenbar
White Hall
Willowbark
Windblight
Winterheart
Wyrmguard
X
Xelfor
Xenara
Xynam
Y
Yemon
Yvl
Z
Zenenkioh
Zephidex
Zeps
Other things that are coming to me:
Asansolapur: I picture a kingdom something like Nepal/Tibet, resting in a series valleys in an enormous range of mountains,The Mountains of Twilight.
Major cities of Asansolapur: Jeeling, Am-Nemil, Ghostivar.... Yetis might be a second class, or even enslaved race.
The Shimmering Waste: A gypsum desert, crossed by Halfling caravans.
Doloon: Coastal fishing city, like a steampunk version of Marseilles, situated on The Lantern Coast, so named for the intricate paper lanterns that hang in all of the fishing villages.
Zolder, Hidden city of the Mountain Gnomes, a hardier, more serious breed of gnome.
Carnassium, City-State in the Echo Archipelago, famed for its colleges of Wizardry.
Sazanne, The Eternal Empire: Capital, Enderban, famed for the Iron Empress and her legendary Midnight Guard, recruited from a rare, noble breed of good aligned Orc with dark blue skin known as Cobalt Orcs.
The Startide Plains, where Mastodon herds still migrate and the ruined pyramids(think more Aztec than Eygptian)of an ancient empire can still be found.
And that's all I have for now.
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I am currently running Genericland, land of all fantasy tropes. Anything that can exist, does exist. I tend to avoid nonsense names, and all things have very descriptive names; IE, "the king", "the empress", "the metropolis", etc...
I am currently running an underdark campaign.
My players (dwarves from the city of greatmine) are currently exploring the underdark to shore up the power of their home city.
Currently, they are in the old dwarven city of stoneforge, a city that somehow go turned entirely to stone by "dwarven-style" medusae.
This is great! Now, from my own world in it's infancy...
EOS: A great cataclysm happened in living memory radically altering the landscape, destroying empires, altering magic (both arcane and divine), and ultimately shifting the balance of power towards evil.
EOS's pantheon was a Forgotten Realms sort of balance system with an over god keeping the lesser gods in line so as to keep the balance between good/evil, law/chaos, and life/death. All this changed with the ending of the gods rebellion and the death of the over god and the greatest god of goodness (think Paladine from DL). In the chaos of this war of the gods all life has changed for the people and even the land itself in EOS.
Gods will be separated into categories:
-Gods of Light: More altruistic gods or benign even.
-Gods of Darkness: Gods of a more evil bending.
-Shadow Gods: Those who don't fall in with the war between good and evil
-Ancient Gods: Minor gods from those of the rivers and mountains, to Archons and Angels, Devils and Demons. (I want devils, demons, angels, and archons to play a big role in the workings of EOS in the new power vacuum.)
On a smaller scale (Likely where the first campaign will take place)..
-With the decimation of a once great and noble (if extremely lawful)empire smaller families rise and vie for political power. Giving rise to two brothers...
-Balphor Ardath: Great Warlord and tactical mind versed in both sword and sorcery.
-Lesinor Ardath: Smaller and sickly but bright and deadly of mind.
I want synthesist summoners to play a huge role in their growing strength.
Races:
-Humans: Duh, the dominate race on the campaign continent.
-Elves: Retreated into their great walled cities with the cataclysm. No free loving hippie elves here but tall grey skilled and serious.
-Gnomes: these guys will play an major role in the world as common in human settlements playing the part of arcanist and holders of ancient wisdom. Not bright and colorful but robed and holding great power.
-Ogres:Will be a common race as well. They and their half-kin will replace the typical orc role and be able to be far more scary.
Warlike and chaotic.
-Halflings: Farmers and surfs at best, slaves and servents at worst.
-Minotaurs and Tengu: From another continent and exotic. Those that come to the campaign lands will likely be outcasts or traders.
-Hobgoblins and Dwarves will be in a war that has lasted hundreds of years with the Hobs taking the upperhand and forcing dwarves to like as rebels in their mountain homes.
PS: The rest of this stuff is awesome! Keep it coming!
Here are just a few names from some of my games and campaigns:
Shakatak (A real name..Nubian pharaoh)
Hawkwind
Hawksparrow
Anzu
Jericho Underbriar
Hezeki
Balasar
Lord Kargoth
Qamra-Ahn
Qamaq
I name places (at least some) from towns (Mostly villages of varying sizes) in the state where I live. These are all real places.
Oil Trough
Cave City
Evening Shade
Bald Knob
Velvet Ridge
Possum Grape
Deer
Fox
Ash Flat
Sandtown
Mammoth Spring
Strawberry
Gravel Ridge
Black Rock
It's late and I'm taking cold medicine. Otherwise I'd have more for ya!
Let me pull up the map of my old homebrew world, see what comes back to me...
The Talenesti Conclave, the elven nation, which is mostly a massive island nation to the northwest of the primary continent. Think the Pacific Northwest. They don't have gods, per se, they worship various aspects of nature that they've personified (their primary gods are the Sun and his two wives, the moons, with an exiled/dead one (one of the moons blew up in the distant past). Most of the rest of the powers are animal spirits like Stag, Bear, and Wolf. Major cities are Minalla, Aera Natalin, and Taraniel.
The Wyldlands are a region tainted by the magic of the fey. Unprotected humanoids that stay in the area mutate, gaining animal features, and eventually becoming a mongrelman-like race called a wyldling. The primary powers are the fey, who act as a noble court, attended by druidic attendants that actually do all the ruling. Major cities are Mal Ko Forn and Sharn Ka Vatel.
The Khaglabash Jungle is mostly ruled by wild goblins, which are pygmy headhunters (as opposed to city goblins, which are mostly Ferengi from Star Trek). There are also girallons, wild bugbears, and ruins.
The Thronehold Confederation is a loose alliance of dwarven citadels throughout the eastern continent. They were once a kingdom, but there hasn't been a dwarven king for centuries, since the aberrations started rising from the deeps and throwing themselves against the citadels. Most of the inspiration for them comes from the old Warlord card game's depiction of dwarves. Primary cities include Khad Kebren, Khaz Modan, and Khaz Betor. Their only major above-ground holding is the Vale of Galen, a massive, isolated valley that is heavily farmed.
The nation of Deros is one of a handful of human nations, probably the most traditionally fantasy. Major cities are Deru's Gate and Silverglade (which is in open rebellion - the area it's in is analogous to the Scottish Highlands, and is similarly rebellious).
South of Deros and across the mountains is the nation of Tyrosh, a nation of seafaring traders and swashbucklers. They are not from this continent - they fled across the sea from a massive invasion of monsters (think the Zerg). They believe in the power of blood - their religion has a lot in common with the Aztecs, except they think that using an unwilling person's blood to feed the gods is immoral. Their only large city is Braavos, but it's quite large.
Northeast of Deros is the nation of Galantri, the largest human nation. It borrows a lot from Thrane in the Eberron setting or Deverenia in the Warlord CCG, with a large, monotheistic religion and a distrust of arcane magic. The names there are mostly Roman - Lutharius (a massive city at the edge of a freshwater lake), Eluvos on the eastern coast (a trading town with the dwarves of the Vale of Galen), Verosa, and Ghed's Crossing (a city built around the only bridge over a massive river that forms one of the country's borders).
The Volstag Islands are just a copy/paste of the Iron Islands of the Song of Ice and Fire books, with the capital of Birka. The only really unusual thing there is that there's a massive city being built by clockwork creations, a holdover from a previous age that's gone mad and is terraforming the area.
Timoran is a city-state of archaeologists, wizards, and scholars, ruled by two rival brothers, lifted from the Brother's Wars from Dominara. The people of Timoran explore the ruins of the Khaman Empire to the north, which was a nation of wizards, similar to Netheril from the Forgotten Realms.
I am currently running Genericland, land of all fantasy tropes. Anything that can exist, does exist. I tend to avoid nonsense names, and all things have very descriptive names; IE, "the king", "the empress", "the metropolis", etc...
I am currently running an underdark campaign.
My players (dwarves from the city of greatmine) are currently exploring the underdark to shore up the power of their home city.
Currently, they are in the old dwarven city of stoneforge, a city that somehow go turned entirely to stone by "dwarven-style" medusae.
SNAKEBEARDS!
SNAKEBEARDS!
Hah. That's a cool idea. Might have to try that out sometime.
SNAKEBEARDS!I am currently running Genericland, land of all fantasy tropes. Anything that can exist, does exist. I tend to avoid nonsense names, and all things have very descriptive names; IE, "the king", "the empress", "the metropolis", etc...
I am currently running an underdark campaign.
My players (dwarves from the city of greatmine) are currently exploring the underdark to shore up the power of their home city.
Currently, they are in the old dwarven city of stoneforge, a city that somehow go turned entirely to stone by "dwarven-style" medusae.
Exactly. Freaked out my players too, since they just completely failed their knowledge checks to identify!